BookExpoCast

In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review.

This session features popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob Sheffield, and Believer editor and former Village Voice editor/critic Ed Park whose comic novel Personal Days will be released in 2008.

The Simmons family has taken American culture by storm. At this session from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival they discuss their new books, along with other matters of family and culture. In this unprecedented event, painter/poet Danny Simmons shares the stage with his brother, rap star Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons (of Run-DMC), and Joseph’s wife, children’s author Justine Simmons.

This special event was hosted by Michael Gonzalez of Bronx Biannual magazine.

Dominic Carter is a veteran New York City journalist and Senior Political Reporter for NY1 News. Earlier this year, he self-published a memoir entitled No Momma’s Boy.

In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, the tables are turned as Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz gets to ask Carter the questions. In addition to NYC political topics, Carter and Markowitz discuss their childhood experiences and rising above adversity.

On September 16, 2007 nearly 100 booksellers and thousands of books filled Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park in Brooklyn, NY for the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival.

This event also featured a series of dramatic readings, author interviews, and panel discussions. By special arrangement with the Brooklyn Book Festival, we will be podcasting select programs from this special event.

Stay tuned all week to listen in!

As BEA 2007 wound down, the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast brought together a diverse and talented group of authors.

To open, Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon, discusses the pressure she felt to follow up the wildly popular The Lovely Bones and reads from her new book. She is joined by Ben Karlin, author of Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me, and Ian McEwan, author of On Chesil Beach.

This BEA Book and Author Breakfast brings together two of the most popular authors of today with perhaps the most successful documentarian of all-time.

Ken Burns, author (with Geoffrey C. Ward) of The War: An Intimate History, 1941 – 1945, gives us a sneak preview of his book’s companion PBS documentary The War. Lisa See, author of Peony in Love, and Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, speak about their latest books and the influences and journeys that inspired them.

In recent years, audiobooks have become a hugely successful avenue for authors to bring their works to a time-strapped audience.

Master of Ceremonies and veteran audiobook narrator Oliver Wyman opens this session, hosted by the Audio Publishers Association, with a reading from Richard Brautigan‘s novella Trout Fishing in America. Wyman is joined by John Lithgow and Roy Blount Jr., who have not only authored new books but also served as narrator, as well Jennifer Egan and Tom Perrotta, who explain what it is like to hear another voice bring their novels into the audiobook realm.

This BEA 2007 Special Event focused on political, cultural and social change. Alan Alda, actor and author of Things I Learned While Talking to Myself was the Master of Ceremonies.

Featured panelists were Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game, Paul Krugman, author of Conscience of a Liberal, and Russell Simmons, author of Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success.

At BEA, Powell’s Books in partnership with Out of the Book Films, introduced a groundbreaking series of short films about authors. The first in the series, the 28-minute film, “Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach,” was screened on Saturday, June 2. Shot over four days in England and the United States, the film includes interviews with McEwan in London, on-location footage from Chesil Beach, an original soundtrack, commentary from peers and critics, and much more. The film is now showing nationwide. You can find a screening and more info at Out of the Book Film.